Nice looking birds ya got there! They look much nicer than the ones I've had!
My two Light Brahma males have pretty interesting personalities; one is very pretty (and more white) and larger, and the other is smaller and grayer. They both have bald-ish spots on their backs (at about two months)...
RIRs are pretty birds, and are really good as heritage-type layers, but one of my male RIRs has gotten rather aggressive (and he's only about two months old). He was always the one to run up to me when I was doing something in the brooder, even at about one or two weeks old, so perhaps he's just...
Label Rouge seems like a good alternative for the U.S. market, as "organic" chicken tends to be pricier AND YET still uses the Cornish X-type of hybrid-commercial bird. Label Rouge chickens are heritage breeds, medium-to-long growth, and seem to be a happy medium between organic and industrial...
I've had several of the same symptoms with several of my chicks. I ordered 25 mixed heavy breed males, got 27 (from MM, btw). They all arrived mid-March (it was cold) alive. Within two days, four died (a RIR, two Buffs, and a White Rock), and within another few days, one more died (I think it...